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Claims that Scotland has produced a disproportionately high number of Britain’s geniuses ring true once you see this impressive list of technical and medical innovations.
  • James Watt (1736 - 1819)
  • James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)
  • Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812 - 1878)
  • Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
  • Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873)
  • John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946)
  • Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)
  • Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)
  • Roslin Institute
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Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873)
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Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873)
Although John Boyd Dunlop would go on to invent the rubber pneumatic tyre, the first design by RW Thomson in 1845 used a number of thin inflated tubes inside a leather cover, making it less likely to deflate if only one of the inner tubes were punctured.

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